Training

In O&P, training of submissives and slaves is viewed as
both an initial
period of teaching and
an ongoing process, similar to athletes or dancers who "keep up with
their training". This is in contrast to traditional descriptions of
slave training in fiction, which had more
of the character of a military bootcamp, turning raw submissives into
the finished product of obedient, skilled slaves in a few weeks or months.

Most skills and good habits are learnt and then kept up to scratch with
practice and repetition, and the ongoing process of training goes about
this in a deliberate way. This can involve a certain amount of
self-training by submissives, just as an amateur marathon runner might
maintain their own training programme. However, keeping up with training
in a long term relationship imposes a role and obligations on dominants,
as the ultimate enforcers of the standards they choose to require.

In practical terms, training involves learning and practising desired
skills, and adhering to the household's structure of
rules and rituals which develops and reinforces
habits of obedience and eases submission in other areas.

(It has been suggested that repeatedly being confronted with rules
that must be obeyed helps wear down feelings of
psychological reactance.)

Slave training has a long history in BDSM
fiction and more recently in non-fiction books and courses. However,
this model of training has typically focussed on a relatively short
process of turning a raw, free individual into a trained slave ready for
acquisition by a new owner.

Corset training or waist training is a way
of using tight-laced corsets to progressively alter the figure, usually
of a woman.